University students protesting the seven-month industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday morning blocked a section of the access road to the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos, CHANNELS TELEVISION reports. The situation caused gridlock along the axis as the vehicular movement in and out of the airport was stalled. The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, told Channels Television that police officers have been deployed to the scene. “Our men are there,” he said in a telephone chat on Monday morning. The National Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Nigerian…
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The Sector Commander, FRSC Cross River, Mr Maikano Hassan, has confirmed a lone accident in which a middle age woman died in Calabar on Sunday. Hassan who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said that the incident was caused by speeding. He said that the incident which occurred on the Muritala Mohammed Road, saw the Toyota Highlander the woman was driving skid off the road into a ditch by the highway. According to him, “Though the woman was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, she was pronounced dead minutes later due to injury sustained from the incident.” NAN…
The Kaduna State University on Monday announced the promotion of three academic staff to the rank of professors. This is contained in a statement on Monday in Kaduna, by Mr Adamu Bargo, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the institution. Bargo said that the promotion was approved by the University’s Governing Council with effect from Oct. 1, 2021, based on the recommendations of external assessors. Those promoted were Dr Ayodele Joseph as Professor of Mass Communication and Dr Sani Bello, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies. Dr Funke Ayokunnumi was also promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology.…
Media Rights Agenda (MRA) announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) suit at the Federal High Court in Lagos against the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for its refusal to act on the organization’s information request seeking details of payments of license fees by broadcasting stations and platforms operating in Nigeria and the amount of indebtedness of each station owing license fees. MRA is asking the Court to declare the NBC’s failure to provide it with the information it requested a breach of its right of access to information as well as a flagrant violation of the…
Police in Osun have taken custody of a 28-year-old man, Ismail Adewuyi, found with a freshly-cut woman’s head and intestines in Ede area of the state. Police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, stated in Osogbo that the suspected ritualist was arrested on Saturday by one Isa Usman, a member of the Nigerian Hunters Association who took him to the police. She added that Adewuyi was arrested by the hunter around at a cemetery. Opalola stated also that police had started interrogating the suspect. (NAN)
The Lagos State Government says it is diverting traffic from Maryland/Mende Underpass from Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022 for continuation of the Opebi/Ojota Tink bridge construction. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde, made the disclosure in a statement in Lagos on Sunday. Oladeinde assures that alternative routes had been mapped out to ease movement during the course of the reconstruction of the underpass. He advised motorists to use the Ojota interchange to connect Maryland and its environs. Oladeinde also urged motorists heading to the inner streets of the axis to make use of Mobolaji Bank Anthony to access Emmanuel, Aderibigbe…
The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), says modalities are in place to train 40 prisoners, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and retirees on entrepreneurial skills. According to a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Mr Monday Ewans, the Director, Enterprises Development and Promotion, SMEDAN, the four-day training scheduled to begin on Monday would take place in six states. They are Ondo, Niger, Katsina, Imo, Borno and Rivers. According to Ewans, the beneficiaries will be provided with empowerment materials for start-up or scaling of their enterprises. He emphasised that raising employment levels among youths required a skill-based…
By nature, Nigerians are predominantly traditional in their approach to shopping. This is hardly surprising when you consider that online shopping or e-commerce, as it is more popularly known, is a fairly recent phenomenon, one that is still catching on here in Nigeria but undoubtedly growing in leaps and bounds. Indeed, e-commerce, or at the very least, the structured version of it that we experience today, is barely a decade old in Nigeria. More on this later. The predilection to readily embrace an opportunity to see, touch or experience a product (a classic case of what you see is what…
The Ogun chapter of the Accord Party says the expulsion of three national officers of the party by the National Executive Committee did not follow due process. Alhaji Adekunle Olayokun, Chairman of the party’s Caretaker Committee in the state , made this known at a press conference in Abeokuta on Sunday. Olayokun said the position was taken at a meeting of the party chieftains held earlier on Sunday in Abeokuta. The News Agency of (NAN) reports that the National Secretary of the Accord party, Mrs Adebukola Ajaja, had on Thursday, announced the expulsion of the three national officers through a communique issued…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has pushed for the compulsory education of the girl-child as a protection mechanism from forced early marriage. UNICEF Country Representative to Nigeria, Mr Peter Hawkins, spoke when he featured as a special guest on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) interview programme, Forum, in Abuja. Hawkins, who said that child marriage remained a big issue in the country, urged all stakeholders to look for ways to prevent this to keep children, who are supposed to be in schools, in the schools. “How do we ensure that girls are able to complete the full grade…